| 100% | TOO | 3 | "The company is now ___ big to fail." (very important to the industry) |
| 41% | TOO | 3 | "___ Big to Fail" (2009 account of the financial crisis) |
| 40% | HOLD | 4 | "Please ___. Your call is very important to us" |
| 40% | BRIMMED | 7 | Was filled to the very edge |
| 38% | ELI | 3 | ___ Broad, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, who is the only individual to have created two Fortune 500 companies in different industries |
| 38% | LEVEES | 6 | Banks that are too important to fail? |
| 38% | VITAL | 5 | Woman takes it to be very important |
| 38% | LONELIEST | 9 | Least likely to be part of the company? |
| 38% | TWOSHOES | 8 | Goody __ is very virtuous according to the tale |
| 37% | SEAMLESS | 8 | What the coal company didn't want to be? |
| 37% | IVE | 3 | "___ been very patient up to now" |
| 37% | AMONG | 5 | "It's nice to be ___ friends" (in the company of) |
| 37% | VIDEO | 5 | What media companies are "pivoting to" in the digital era |
| 36% | SLICE | 5 | Record company's is usually the biggest |
| 36% | IFNOT | 5 | "Should that fail to be the case ..." |
| 36% | BORNLOSERS | 10 | Ones fated to fail, or what the answers to the starred clues are, initially? |
| 36% | OCTAD | 5 | The planets, now that Pluto has been downgraded to an ice-covered dwarf planet |
| 36% | ELSIETHECOW | 11 | Company mascot introduced in the 1930s that has never been put out to pasture |
| 35% | AWAITS | 6 | "She ___ news from the company she applied to" ("She is expecting news") |
| 35% | SLEIGH | 6 | (6/6) "And now it's time to prep the ___! The reindeer are gearing up for the big night--soon we'll be spreading joy and cheer, far and wide!" |
| 35% | MATTHEWMODINE | 13 | "Too Big to Fail" actor who plays Martin Brenner in the Netflix series "Stranger Things" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | IBM | 3 | American technology company known as "Big Blue" which is the twentieth most valuable brand according to Forbes in 2019: Abbr. |
| 35% | HAS | 3 | "If anyone ___ anything to say, now is the time!" |
| 35% | DOIT | 4 | "The time to act is now!" |
| 35% | NEWYORK | 7 | The Big Apple, which is home to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 34% | GOOGLE | 6 | Company whose name is spelled with up to 10 O's toward the bottom of its webpages |
| 34% | THATSANORDER | 12 | "Do it now!," and what can be said about the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | NOOL | 4 | According to the Sour Kangaroo, Horton was "the biggest blame fool in the jungle of ___" |
| 34% | TOO | 3 | ___ big to fail |
| 34% | TOO | 3 | "___ big to fail" |